Transcription of City-States in Mesopotamia - 6th Grade Social Studies
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1. City-States in Mesopotamia MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES. INTERACTION WITH The development of this Fertile cultural ENVIRONMENT The earliest civilization reflects a settlement Crescent diffusion civilization in Asia arose in pattern that has occurred Mesopotamia polytheism Mesopotamia and organized repeatedly throughout history. city -state empire into City-States . dynasty Hammurabi SETTING THE STAGE Two rivers flow from the mountains of what is now Turkey, down through Syria and Iraq, and finally to the Persian Gulf. Over six thousand years ago, the waters of these rivers provided the lifeblood that allowed the formation of farming settlements.
By 3000 B.C., the Sumerians had built a number of cities, each surrounded by fields of barley and wheat. Although these cities shared the same culture, they developed their own governments, each with its …
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